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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-05-28
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

spectroscopic observations give dif.
ierent composition FOR variable stars at
different perod4. thus in iloatins taai
the variability results from the combus
tion OF different substances.
During 1856 eleven new asteroids
were detected. increasing the ru'a Or
known to 264 O, this tota, > b. We
been discoved By d.. j. ra.sa Of =
enna, and 46 hy D.. Peters Of Clinton,
n. y.
Out of fifteen thousand earthqua ,e'
observed on coast lines, the German ; ~
mologist, k!uge, found that only nc
hundred and twenty fur were acc Il
panied by sea wavee although wy
large proportion Of the shocks bad II =
ably originated under the sea
decidedly big mining scnem. IS
about to be launched in California. 1t
is no less than a twelve mile tunnc. for
draining the entire ground OF mine il
Nevada City and Grand Valley. The
water power Of the Yuba river viii he
used to dr.v HE drills and prorel the
cars. The tunnel, whore 1t enters tic
mines will be l2Go below the surface.
As feat of engineering the tunnels Of
the st. Gothard and Mont Gems have
been surpassed by tunnel near Schem
nitz, in Hungary. /, is 10 IA miles
long, about 10 feet high, and 5'broad.
1t has taken ncar.y a century TO COM
plcte aud cost s., 900. 000 and its lur-
pose is to carry of the water from tho
mines. This work has suffered long in
tervals Of stoppage, once for thirty and
again for twenty years, and is estimated
to effect an annual saving OF $50, 600.
A practical railway mechanic says it
may as we'll be known, first and last, that
no locomotive can make steam to draw
and heat the cars at the same time The
constant worry Of an engineer is the fear
of being unable to draw his train up
grades, because OF the liability Of his
steam running low. No steam can be
spared from the engines, and if the cars
must have steam heat-by popular lie =
mand or Legislative enactment-the only
way to do is to run special furnace car
on every passenger train.
! A communication to the London Me
teorological Society. by Capt. Toynbce,
states as his conclusion that clou IS OF
not less than 1000 feet in thickness are
seldom accompanied by rain, or, If they
are, it is very gentle, consisting of minute
! drops; with thickness Of between 5000
and 1000 feet, the size of the drops Is
moderate; with increasing thickness oi
! the clouds comes an increasing size oi
/ the drops, and at the same time the de
! gree Of temperature becomes lowered,
When the thickness amounts to more
than 5000 feet, hail is produced.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-05-28

wkh kind of interna. sensation OF
rapidisy.
After leaving IA Jeune France" we
VISITED three or four less intcrestin. es-
t'pishments. Ii was the same spectacle
IN each OF them. Nothing at all like the
descriptions given by Eugene Sue, and
he narratives Q: other explorers Of
PArls. Calva.or Rosa's brigands are as
flareal and conve tional as his stormy
,audscapes.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-05-28
G0ing Home.

Kiss me whc my spirit flies:
Let the beauty Of your eves
Beau along the wnve, or death
VILE ! draw my par ing breath
And ain borne 10 yonder shore
Where the bjllows beat no more,
And the notes Of endless spring
Through the groves immortal ring
am going home to night.
Jai O: b l-dncs5 into sight
''Ht "f eakne>a, war and pain,
'H.o power, peace and gain.
tu' + winter gale and gloom
lato summer breath and bloom.
FT@1n the wanderings Of the past,
am gong homo at las.
+ hsa rIy lips and let we go;.
Ngarcr sweis the solemn flow
Df the wnndrous sire m that rolls
BY tie b lrGol lard If souls.
] can catch sweet strains Of songs
FIoatI < down from distant throngs
And can feel tt.e touch of hands
heachiI < ont from angel bands
An-"f s frOwn and Envy's thrust.
frlerG@hlp kIlIed by cod Distrust
'Nl"orIesS night and weary morn,
Toll ia fru les land forlorn,
Aching head and breaking heart,
l.ov" destroyed by SANDERS dart
Drifting shtp'and darkenel sea,
over there "ilirlghted b..
JAMES T.. CLARK
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-05-28
BEN'S NOSTALGIA y
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$40, didn't seem as twas. Lemme
'mnk' nnd he pressed ma'iitative fore
'nser on that portion Of his forehead
where ''e seemed to locate the faculty of
memory
IS anybody dead that you are &C
4ua'ntcd wIth|'
No. no, tan't cyether marryIn' or
'y'n Is KIN see. Gurus ROW do for
3'' ,h'"Ss sometimes
we amt heard from Ben for quite
'"A.le' suggested Mrs. Conovcr,
MAJ H. cF'ed the 1'r'neF' jumping
70 Ms ''e' as sPF'Shty as log Tain I
''''' p'"' '''''"''e II an I nus A'nd-
N''''n ""o us letter, I've got 1t
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p' Tell, S'd his wife, dropping the
dishes She was holding IN p7oniscu-
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""4"'"@ 1t at last
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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-05-28

HcI ~ nam N'et litu1.
She shook her head n
at means that we must 90 to !.
just as soon as we can. II there hal
been any hope the doctor would lave
said So
She cried and worked at the same
time. Ben, her only brother, was her
idol. She had opposed his going away
. from first to last, but the father was
wiser
''If the boy amt contentcl here. let
him go to the city, and clerk 1t for
year or two. He's king Of two hands
anywhere" said the gruff old farmer
And Ben had been ill, aud too proud
to let them know.
They took the evening train. At the
depot some Of their friends had gathered
10 hear the news.
OF each and all, they asked the same
question.
Have you ever heard Of Nastalgy?"
And lone Of them had ever heard Of
it, but all agreed that it must be a
dreadful thing to have such difficult
name.
When they reached the CITY they
had cried and worried themselves
sick.
At least the two women hal The
father, with the stoicism Of his, kind,
had beat a constant tattoo on the car
window and whistied an accom-
paniment-all the time he was crying in
his heart
"OA, Absalom, my son. my sonr
There was no one to meet them, as no
one was interested in their coming ex-
cept Ben and the doctor, and they
neither Of them had heard Of their in
intentions.
50 they went Mt once to the pace
where Ben boarded, drcary house,
with innumcrabie small, Authenticated
rooms, whcrc for the cntrc sum that he
earned weekly Ben Connovcr was per-
mit:cd to lodge.
The doctor had male his hospital
fo"naS 'ha' night and his last Call was
O" D'"' II" was young physician ana
very "''o0S over ms patients lie TOOK
uu interest in the handsome, whole
So" 'N country p"g VII" WAS dh'e-
customer 20 close rooms anu sewer gas
ana ''ne'S h'uFS' anu 50 wrote 'ha' 'et-
ter 10 his mother.
ANA ~ 'i'eS s''o' on inc step ringing
'H' S'n'"'''"g ocH ne "A'Ne1 up ana
'''.. "'9'''e'1o VINO 'Aey "eF', ana
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Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
ALASKAN SEALERS.

The Controversy between Great Britain
and the United States Very Serious.
WASHINGTON, Nov. f5.-The contro-
versy over the British sealers seized by
our government in Alaskan waters is
more serious than has perhaps been an
ticipated 1t appears from publication
of the Canadian government that Great
Britain made very emphatic demand
for the release of the sealers and they
were released, and that the subjects Of
Great Britain have put in quite for
midable bill of damages against the
United States, the merits of which
are still in controversy between the two
governments Whether or not the ques-
ton. connected with the seizures of thu
sealers will be brought up in the fishery
conference which is soon to meet here, 1t
is evident that the British authorities in
tend to make the most of the Alaska in
cident in some way, and that specific
case is to be urged for damages which
may assume as grave a character as the
questions now pending relative to the
fisheries on the Atlantic coast.
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
Buffalo Bil1's Royal Patrons.

inquired about the Prince of Wales
and the queen, and how they happened to
take so cordially to the Wild West. Said
Cody: "The prince is very democratic
sort of man. The first time he spoke to
me he called me Bill, and asked me if ]
had ever held four kings before. told
him had often held four kings, but this
time had the Prince of Wales, and that
made the royal flush. His wife, if possible,
is more DEMOCRATIC than he is. She is q
remarkably good woman, and perfectly
unaffected"
She expressed a great desire to ride in
the stage coach. 1t was impromptu. and
we tried in vain to get the Indians to un-
derstand that they must not get too close
with the coach to fi4e They got an idea
that somebody important was inside, and
that therefore they must fire little worse
than ordinarily. We went through a good
deal of trouble here for fear somebody or
other might get hurt through the flashing
of powder or wads or something. The
Princess of Wales got out with face per-
fectly white, and she said with her broken
accent: ''Now am sure have been to
war! have been under fire, knowr'
Colonel Cody said that the queen was a
very motherly, domestic sort of woman,
whose inquiries were almost entirely adj
dressed to the health of Vthe people in the
show. She wanted to know how the In
dams got along; if they had any disease,
and were comfortable. "She seemed tn
me,' said Cody, ito be a philanthropic,
kindly woman. Gath in Cincinnati
F71u11irap
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16

MINNESOTA CROPS.

Estimate on the Yield Of Various Coarse
Grains---Large Increase in Quantity and
Quality Of the Corn Crop---Oats Do Not
Last Year---The Flax Crop.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. 10-The crop
of coarse grains raised in Minnesota this
year will exceed those of last, although
the increase is due more to increase Of
acreage than in yield. The corn crop of
Minnesota, with the exception of few
counties in the southern part of the
state, is much better than last year.
From reports 1t is estimated that the
average yield is 80 bushels against 34115
bushels last year. The acreage as given
by the commissioner OF statistics is 631,
1853 against 557, sos last year. The total
yield last year was II, 589, 600. The total
crop this year based on 80 bushels per
acre on 631, 1863 acres is 90, 213, sos, amin
crease of about 1850, 900. The quality of
the crop is generally very good, most of
it having been too far advanced when the
first frost came to be seriously injured.
The crop of oats raised this year, al
though not quite as heavy an average as
last year., is much larger in the total.
The area sown in 1887 was 1878, 600,
against /, 127, 900 in 1885. The average yield
last year was nearly 80 bushels per acre.
This year about 81 bushels. THIS on an
acreage of ,27s, 600 gives total crop of
39,631, 900, against IS, 875, 900 last year.
The quality of the crop is not as good as
last year, as the heavy rains which came
just as the harvest was finished caused
considerable damage In some sections.
The acreage of fax this year is not as
large as year ago. In many counties
the crop was damaged by the hot and wet
weather in 1885, and farmers became dis
couragedIand put the ground to other
crops this year. The acreage in 1885 was
204, 900; this year it is reported at III, 900.
The yield will be about I, 200, 000
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
A Remarkable Accident.

''Talking about railroad accidents" re-
marked an old railroad man in converse
ton about the Chatsworth horror, "the
most remarkable one ever knew of-and
I've been running on the road now for
nearly thirty years-was in Kansas on
the Kansas Pacific, not far from Fort
Wallace, where train of cars, including
the engine, were blown into the bed of q
dry creek and never found. That is, the
engine and some of the cars never were
The engineer and fireman were both lost
The train was freight, and that's. why
there were no passengers to be killed. At
the time of the Tay bridge disaster in
Scotland the train, which was blown from
the bridge or went through the bridge,
whichever it was, was. never found be-
cause the water and mud were deep and
swallowed up the engine, while the
coaches probably went out to sea with, the
tide. But there was no tide in that Kan
Bas dry branch. The quicksand just swal-
lowed everything. Chicago Tribune.
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16

can candidate for governor, has over i5,-
600 plurality.
In Virginia it seems probable that the
result of the vote for senators and MEM
bers of the house of delegates is that the
state will elect Democratic United
States senator, -S 4
Judge Gary'is, of course, reelected in
Chicago.
The Second Rhode Island congressional
district elected Republican, The bot.
tom fell out of the prohibition vote.
In Maryland the Democratic majority
is from 10, 900 to 1S,600. Both branches
of the legislature are Democratic.
Nebraska gives 90, 00os Republican ma
jority
Democrats carry everything in Balti-
more, Md.
Pittsburg, Penp., probably gives the
Republican ticket ), 200 majority.
Prohibition was defeated in Oregon by
over $4,000, The Prohibitionists carry
only two counties in the state.
Mississippi elected nearly straight-out
Democratic legislature.
Detroit, Mich, elected a Democratic
city ticket. asEk.
/ New Jersey elected Republican legis-
/ lature, insulting "a Republican Uuited
States senator.
Pennsylvania gives Republican ma
jority estimated from 10, 900 to 50, 600.
Iowa gives q Republican majority of
from 1000 to 10000: ST
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
AN ENORMOUS TRANSFER.
One of the Largest Deals Ever Made Con
summated ia Chicago.

One of the Largest Deals Ever Made Con-
summsted III Chicago.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1a.-one Of the largest
business deals probably ever consuR-
mated in the world was ratified here
when the entire property and franchises
of the Chicago West Division Street Rail
way company passed into the hands OF
new purchasers. The sum agreed upor
was $i3, 1000, coo. This is two or three
times as urge as the deal of the Balti-
more & Ohio telegraph transfer, about
which so much was said in Wall street,
and which made and lest fortunes for
spectators. The length Of the street
lines owned by the company aggregates
about ninety miles, and the price paid,
therefore, is in the neighborhood Of $145,
900 a mile, the franchise rights
and privileges being included in the es-
timated mileage value.
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
LANDS FAST DISAPPEARING.

Ar the Present Rate the Best of Dakota
Lands WIN All BE Gone In Il Year.
ST. PAUL, Nov. 12-There are 20, 600, :
600 acres of government land in Dakota
still open to settlement. The Bismarck
land district has 2,500, 900 acres, Devils
Lake district, 1900, 900 acres; Deadwood
district, 100000 acres; Aberdeen dis
trict, 600, 900 acres, and Fargo district
100000 acres. The land in Huron.
Watertown, Mitchell and Yankton dis
iricts is substantially gone. Some time,
of course, portion of the reservation set
aside for the {ndianswill be open for gen
eral settlement, but at present 20, 600. 600
acres comprise all the available land for
settlers in the vast terrnDry of Dakota.
At moderate rate of settlement this
land will be gone within the next three
years, and the best of it within the next
twelve or fifteen months.
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
STATE ELECTIONS.

Summary of the Vote Cast in Five States
Fred Grant Defeated In New York. 3
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-Ohio gives Fora
ker a plurality estimated at 20, 900, a
large Republican gain.
In New York the prohibition vote in
CREASED by several thousand, while the
labor vote fell off. 1t will not exceed
10000. The prohibition vote will reach
5000. The Democratic state ticket is
elected by probably $4,000. New York
city and Brooklyn elected the straight
Democratic ticket, and New York city
gave the state ticket over 90, 0G0 majority.
The labor vote in New Yorck city alone
fell of $4,000. -
In Dakota there was big majority for
division and local option.
IN Massachusetts, Ames, the Bepnbl-
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
An Absent Minded Person.

One of the most absent minded of men
lived and died, not long ago, in town not
far from Concord. He was most worthy
minister of the Gospel, and conducted the
greater part of one long midsummer SER
vice with one pair of heavy spectacles on
his nose and another canted high up on
his massive forehead.
He once called on a lady parishioner
and invited her with characteristic polite
ness to go to ride. She accepted gladly
and ''fixed up" only to find with the
dominic when they reached the door that
he had made his call on horseback, and
that his chaise was at his home half
dozen miles away.-Concord Monitor.
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
A VISION.

By hands invisible was caught
Up to rare and dizzy height.
Hard by the places where are wrought
The miracles of the Infinite.
The springs of the world were set in play
Before me, and looked far down
The sapphire reaches that stretch away
Through starry spaces to the Unknown:
Felt Earth's fine heart bats rise and fall,
Had power conferred to apprehend
The immortal longings which ascend
From burdened breasts in hut and hall;
Saw how human instinct shoots
Its loving fbers all abroad,
Firm graphing with its deepest roots
The restful soils ordained of God.
Richard Realf
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
COMPLETED the Survey

HURON, D. T., Nov. 1.-THE survey of
the Missouri Valley & Yankton Railroad
company illinois Central railroad) has
been completed from Sioux Falls to Yank-
ton. It runs two miles west of Lennox,
through Hurley. 1t is expected that the
grade stakes will be set this week and next
Death of Judge Berry of the Minnesota
Supreme Court.
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 8-Judge Berry,
of the state supreme court, died here
Tuesday.
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
Fire and Drought,

CHICAGO, Nov. 9.-An Inter-Ocean
special from Evansville, Ind, says: For
est fires continue In this section with in
creased force. Throughout Southern
Illinois steamboat navigation has been
inpeded, and thrOughont the drought
stricken district Of Western Kentucky
great distress continues frem the water
famine. -.
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
ORDERED TO REDUCE FARES.

Commissioners Come Down on the Mani
toba and n. p. Roads.
ST. PAUL, Nov. 12.-The board of rail-
road and warehouse commlssl ION have
issued an order to the officers Of the
Notheri Pacific and the st. Paul, Mime
apolis & Manitoba railways requiring
them to reduce their fares to rate not
exceeding cents per mile.
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
THE CROW TROUBLES.
Troops to BE Retired to Their Respective
Posts "a Soon as Practicable,

Troops 10 Be ISetireU 10 IhtFF KNeHpectiFe
Posts as Soon as Prn cticabie.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1O.-Gen. Terry
has informed the war department of the
receipt of the following from the Crow
agency: 1.-THE Crows reported yesterday
still to be arrested are in custody,
also Chief Crastie Head, whom find
implicated in the trouble. had talk
with the assembled Crows. Good feel
ing prevailed among them. The agent
states he win issue annuities ON the 9th
inst Twill retain the troops here until
the Indians disperse and then gradually
return the troops to their respective post,
sending those from Mckinney first.
RUGER, Brigadier General
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
100000 RIOTERS.
Very Serious Collision Sunday
Between the London Mob
and the Police.
Two Hundred Rioters and Fifty Police
Wounded..-The Leaders Ar
rested and Sentenced.

LONDON, Nov. 14.-The scene at Ira
falgar square Sunday has not been
equaled since 1866, when the people, in
attesting their right to hold public meet
ings, destroyed the ratings of Hyde park.
Early in the day 1000 policemen took
possession of the square and its. APP
proaches, prepared to hold it and prevent
the advertised meeting. Soon the differ
emit clubs, associations, ETC., began to
arrive, after having marched through
the various districts in which they be-
longed, headed by bands OF music and
flying flags, banners, streamers, etc.
These detachments were composed Of
socialists, radicals, Irish societies and q
few trades associations, and as fast as
they came to the square they were at
tackled and dispersed by the police, only
to reassemble and press forward. Later,
as the crowds became more dense, fierce
fights were started between the police
and the mob in Northumberland avenue,
Whitehall, Pail Mall and other adjacent
streets, in which the police were uni
formly the yictors, One detachment,
preceded by band, succeeded In
getting into the square and bloody Tight
ensued, which ended finally in the repulse
of the intruders and the injury of many
persons. At 4:30 p. m. the crowd num-
bered easily 100, 900 and it became 50 per
fectly manifest that the police We're power
less to disperse them that the military
was summoned In responsesto this call
a force of cavalry and infantry came upon
the ground, but they refrained from
charging upon the multitude, because the
people, awed by the presence of troops,
had begun to disperse, and by dusk com.
paratively few remained. Two hundred
citizens and forty of the police were in
jured in the succession of melees that
took place. and about fifty of the dis
turbers were arrested, including Burns,
the socialist leader. Some of those In
jured were well enough to leave the hos
pital after their wounds had been dressed.
while others are so badly hurt that the!
cannot fully recover for weeks.
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
A Fatal Admiasinn.

The San Francisco Bulletin thinks Yam
Phou Lee makes fatal admission when
he says that the Chinese immigrants rely
mainly upon the Chinese companies for
aid, which really amounts to assisted Inn
migration and contract labor.
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16

The Galveston News says Texas has
2,500,00 dogs. The dogs cost their own
ers five cents a day per head, or altogether
$45, 100000 a year, and sheep owners
100000 o year more, q total OF
$50. coo. 900,
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16
NEW Laundry.
FRED RUNNELI,

4stht Metropolitan Hotel having purchased
lAd fitted ND the hnn1lng 90 Attantlc Ave-
~. n,sxf 10 Good'- Y.lewAfn Is prepared TO do
s.iads or landry Wcr6 in II first class
nstnner, AT reasonable rates. Family work
by the week at reduced rates.
Collars. Cuffs and fine work q speciality.
Apply at Office of hotel or at laundry .feb10tf
Morris tribune., 1887-11-16

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